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COVID-19 , Pandemics , Personnel Staffing and Scheduling/trends , Research Personnel/organization & administration , Research/organization & administration , Teleworking/trends , COVID-19/epidemiology , Education, Distance/trends , Education, Graduate/trends , Humans , Mentoring/trends , Research/education , Research Personnel/education , Surveys and Questionnaires , Videoconferencing/trendsSubject(s)
Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , International Cooperation , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Research Personnel/organization & administration , Travel/trends , Authorship , COVID-19 , Congresses as Topic/organization & administration , Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control , Efficiency , Financing, Organized/economics , Financing, Organized/organization & administration , Greenhouse Effect/prevention & control , Humans , Pandemics/prevention & control , Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control , Research Personnel/supply & distribution , Videoconferencing/organization & administrationSubject(s)
Coronavirus Infections , Open Access Publishing , Pandemics , Periodicals as Topic , Pneumonia, Viral , Research , Betacoronavirus/pathogenicity , COVID-19 , Communicable Disease Control , Coronavirus Infections/drug therapy , Coronavirus Infections/economics , Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Coronavirus Infections/virology , Humans , International Cooperation , Mental Health , Pandemics/economics , Peer Review, Research , Physicians/organization & administration , Physicians/psychology , Pneumonia, Viral/drug therapy , Pneumonia, Viral/economics , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Pneumonia, Viral/virology , Research/organization & administration , Research Personnel/organization & administration , Research Personnel/psychology , Research Report , SARS-CoV-2 , Time FactorsABSTRACT
Operating shared resource laboratories (SRLs) in times of pandemic is a challenge for research institutions. In a multiuser, high-turnover working space, the transmission of infectious agents is difficult to control. To address this challenge, imaging core facility managers being members of German BioImaging discussed how shared microscopes could be operated with minimal risk of spreading SARS-CoV-2 between users and staff. Here, we describe the resulting guidelines and explain their rationale, with a focus on separating users in space and time, protective face masks, and keeping surfaces virus-free. These recommendations may prove useful for other types of SRLs. © 2020 The Authors. Cytometry Part A published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. on behalf of International Society for Advancement of Cytometry.
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Betacoronavirus/pathogenicity , Biomedical Research/organization & administration , Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control , Infection Control , Laboratories/organization & administration , Microscopy , Occupational Health , Pandemics/prevention & control , Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control , COVID-19 , Cooperative Behavior , Coronavirus Infections/transmission , Coronavirus Infections/virology , Decontamination , Equipment Contamination/prevention & control , Germany , Humans , Occupational Exposure/prevention & control , Personal Protective Equipment , Pneumonia, Viral/transmission , Pneumonia, Viral/virology , Protective Factors , Research Personnel/organization & administration , Risk Assessment , Risk Factors , SARS-CoV-2 , WorkflowSubject(s)
COVID-19 , Cooperative Behavior , Drug Industry/organization & administration , Research/organization & administration , Universities/organization & administration , COVID-19/epidemiology , Humans , Information Dissemination , Intellectual Property , Pandemics , Research Personnel/organization & administrationSubject(s)
COVID-19 , Cooperative Behavior , International Cooperation , Politics , Research/organization & administration , Authorship , COVID-19/epidemiology , China , Female , Humans , Male , Pandemics , Research/trends , Research Personnel/organization & administration , Sex Factors , United StatesSubject(s)
COVID-19/epidemiology , Personnel Selection/legislation & jurisprudence , Research Personnel/legislation & jurisprudence , Research Personnel/organization & administration , Travel/legislation & jurisprudence , COVID-19/prevention & control , Cooperative Behavior , Female , Humans , International Cooperation , Male , Research Personnel/economics , Research Personnel/psychology , Vaccination/statistics & numerical dataSubject(s)
Authorship , International Cooperation , Politics , Research/organization & administration , COVID-19/epidemiology , China , Global Warming/prevention & control , Pandemics , Research/standards , Research/trends , Research Personnel/organization & administration , Risk Assessment , Security Measures/trends , United StatesSubject(s)
COVID-19 , Communication , Faculty , Pandemics , Research Personnel , COVID-19/epidemiology , COVID-19/psychology , Faculty/organization & administration , Faculty/psychology , Humans , Leadership , Research Personnel/organization & administration , Research Personnel/psychology , Universities/organization & administrationSubject(s)
Advisory Committees/organization & administration , Entrepreneurship , Leadership , Research Personnel/organization & administration , Research Personnel/standards , Age Factors , Big Data , Creativity , Diplomacy , Oceanography , Open Access Publishing , Organizational Innovation , Peer Review, Research , Research Personnel/education , Research Personnel/psychology , Sustainable DevelopmentSubject(s)
International Cooperation , Political Systems/psychology , Politics , Research Personnel/organization & administration , Research Personnel/psychology , Science/organization & administration , Social Support , Asian People/psychology , Biological Science Disciplines/ethics , Biological Science Disciplines/standards , Censorship, Research , China , Federal Government , Female , Foreign Professional Personnel , Humans , Racism/prevention & control , Science/standards , Trust , Xenophobia/prevention & controlSubject(s)
COVID-19 , Congresses as Topic/organization & administration , Congresses as Topic/trends , Research Personnel , Videoconferencing/trends , COVID-19/epidemiology , Carbon Footprint , Congresses as Topic/economics , Humans , Pandemics , Research Personnel/economics , Research Personnel/organization & administration , Videoconferencing/economicsABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Several studies have highlighted the disparities in gender equity that exist in different medical specialties. The COVID-19 pandemic has further heightened the inequity faced by female physicians as they are challenged by increasing household and childcare duties in addition to their professional responsibilities. Given these hurdles, fewer women than men have published in various medical disciplines. In this brief report, we wanted to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the academic output of female physicians and researchers in transfusion medicine. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: We compared all articles in four transfusion medicine journals published from January 1 to July 31, 2019 with the same time period in 2020. Overall, 1024 articles were reviewed for whether they included women as first or senior authors. RESULTS: Overall, women were first authors in 45.9% (n = 458) of all publications and senior authors in 35% (n = 356) of all publications. There was a statistically significant decrease in the percentage of women as first authors between 2019 (49.1%) and 2020 (42.7%) (p = .04). There was no significant change in the percentage of women as senior authors between 2019 (35.4%) and 2020 (35.5%) (p = 0.99). CONCLUSIONS: Similar to other medical specialties, the COVID-19 pandemic has further increased the disparities faced by female researchers in transfusion medicine as evidenced by a decrease in publications with women as first authors.